An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...

When it comes to music consumption, streaming continues to be the music industry's biggest earner. Sales of physical formats like CD and vinyl are declining overall, though the latter has been clawing ...

CD-ROM - read only, the data is written to them before they are sold. CD-R - meaning CD-Recordable, the user can write data to the CD once or fill it over time using multi-session (writing to the same ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. Arduinocelentano stresses that the applied imaging technique ...